{"id":2233,"date":"2020-10-22T19:13:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T17:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lefa.co.ls\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2020-10-22T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T17:31:11","slug":"rabale-we-will-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefa.co.ls\/?p=2233","title":{"rendered":"Rabale Reacts to COSAFA Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2234\" src=\"https:\/\/lefa.co.ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DSC_1902-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/>Mehalalitoe captain-Boitumelo \u201cQueen\u201d Rabale has welcomed what she regarded as a tough draw for the upcoming COSAFA Women\u2019s Championship set for South Africa after Lesotho was drawn against Zambia and Malawi in Group B on Thursday.<\/h3>\n<p>The 24-year-old, who was earlier this year crowned Junior College All-American and National Women\u2019s Player of the Year, said the spirit is very high in their camp and they are all looking forward to the tournament billed for Nelson Mandela Bay early in November.<\/p>\n<p>Rabale has the experience of playing in the regional Women\u2019s Championship having featured for Lesotho in the 2011 and 2017 editions of the tournament and is adamant of a good showing in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a fair group, I think. Zambia have done very well in recent editions of the tournament and might be a bit of a challenge,\u201d Rabale said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, there is a lot of positivity in our camp. I have a good feeling that we will do well and make our country proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMehalalitoe\u201d, as the Lesotho team is affectionately known, will get their campaign underway against 2019 finalist Zambia on November 4<sup>th<\/sup> Wolfson Stadium and will play Malawi three days later at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa beat Zambia 1-0 in the final of last year\u2019s tournament to complete at hat-trick of COSAFA Women\u2019s Championship titles in the last three years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COSAFA WOMEN\u2019S CHAMPIONSHIP POOLS<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nGroup A<\/strong><br \/>\nSouth Africa<br \/>\nEswatini<br \/>\nComoros<br \/>\nAngola<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group B<\/strong><br \/>\nZambia<br \/>\nMalawi<br \/>\nLesotho<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group C<\/strong><br \/>\nZimbabwe<br \/>\nBotswana<br \/>\nTanzania<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2235\" src=\"https:\/\/lefa.co.ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DSC_1952-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehalalitoe captain-Boitumelo \u201cQueen\u201d Rabale has welcomed what she regarded as a tough draw for the upcoming COSAFA Women\u2019s Championship set for South Africa after Lesotho was drawn against Zambia and Malawi in Group B on Thursday. The 24-year-old, who was earlier this year crowned Junior College All-American and National Women\u2019s Player of the Year, said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rabale Reacts to COSAFA Draw - Lesotho Football Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lefa.co.ls\/?p=2233\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rabale Reacts to COSAFA Draw - Lesotho Football Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mehalalitoe captain-Boitumelo \u201cQueen\u201d Rabale has welcomed what she regarded as a tough draw for the upcoming COSAFA Women\u2019s Championship set for South Africa after Lesotho was drawn against Zambia and Malawi in Group B on Thursday. 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